Scott Albert Johnson’s new single “Float” (available in December 2020 on all major digital services) is a song for our current times, offering a way forward instead of a way out. The lyrics address the desire to "float away" from troubles, while recognizing "that's not the way it works." While Scott is lyrically influenced by heroes like Bob Dylan, Neil Peart,...
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Scott Albert Johnson’s new single “Float” (available in December 2020 on all major digital services) is a song for our current times, offering a way forward instead of a way out. The lyrics address the desire to "float away" from troubles, while recognizing "that's not the way it works." While Scott is lyrically influenced by heroes like Bob Dylan, Neil Peart, Marvin Gaye, and Roger Waters, the music draws on elements from the vintage album rock years of the 1970s and 1980s (Police, Rush, Tears for Fears), as well as modern sounds that bridge the digital and analog worlds (Radiohead, Peter Gabriel, U2). Yet ultimately, Scott says: “I don’t believe in genre. I believe in music and the power of a good song.”

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Scott produced, engineered, and mixed “Float” and plays or programs all instruments on the recording except for the rhythm guitars and the closing guitar solo, which are played by Kevin Sibley. Notably, Scott composed and plays the groove on the bass guitar (his original instrument) as well as his first recorded guitar solo. He steps away here from his considerable reputation on the harmonica, as this is his first-ever released track without the instrument.

Born in St. Louis and raised in Jackson, Mississippi, Scott Albert Johnson was bathed in the wide range of the American songbook, as well as the music of his upbringing. Johnson incorporates elements of rock, jazz, blues, funk, country, and world music, mixed with thoughtful lyrics, strong vocals, and virtuosic playing, to create a unique, modern concoction of sound. Scott has shared the stage or studio with the Boston Pops, China Forbes (Pink Martini), Cassandra Wilson, Marty Stuart, James Burton, Mike Mills (R.E.M.) and many more outstanding artists. He was a featured guest artist with the Boston Pops at Symphony Hall in Boston in 2017.

“I've always felt most influenced by artists who are kind of what I would call triple-threats,” says Johnson. “They sing well, they play at least one instrument very well, and they write great songs. I take each of these three parts of the equation as seriously as any other part. I also feel most in-tune with artists who kind of are ‘their own genre,’ borrowing from many different kinds of music. I hope my music reflects that.”
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